Devonte Chavez Ellison, 25, was shot at the Sooner Haven apartment complex near Northeast 36th Street and North Prospect Avenue in northeast Oklahoma City on the night of June 16, 2017. Police were called shortly before 11 p.m.; officers found Ellison wounded and he was taken to a hospital. He died of his injuries three days later, on June 19, 2017, and the shooting was investigated as the Oklahoma City Police Department’s 33rd homicide of 2017.

Detectives treated the Sooner Haven complex as an active crime scene and canvassed the area. Within days police arrested Ellison’s girlfriend, 24-year-old Renita Keshawn Wells, and booked her on a complaint of first-degree murder; she was identified publicly as the primary suspect and no other suspects were announced. The district attorney filed a formal first-degree murder charge, and Wells remained in custody awaiting trial.

Ellison’s name appears on the National Gun Violence Memorial for June 19, 2017, and his burial was arranged through Arlington Memory Gardens in Oklahoma City. If anyone who knew Devonte Ellison or who was at Sooner Haven that night has information, please share it with investigators.